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You can go look directly at some of the bigger consulting & services firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, Slalom etc. They all hire a huge spectrum of tech experiences and skill sets. Easiest to start there to learn what to look for.

You can find similar types of roles that those folks I listed above are hiring for within other large companies, sometimes. Some of those large orgs have a small army of consultants and managed services to keep relationships intact when a client decides to try out a different vendor for part of their stack. I spent my time helping clients figure out how to be successful with a competitor to help us keep the existing business we had. It gets weird, but it's out there and I admit I kind of fell into it, but it was because I blindly applied and they were very excited about my past experiences.

To be clear I did not say start my own consultancy. That job was actually completely out of network and was me reaching out and applying. Start looking at big companies that have professional services orgs and find where the tech aligns.

The one year stints hurt a little, but have you thought about consulting? After 4 startups with one of my own fails in the middle, I was burnt out. I ended up getting a consulting / little bit of managed services gig at a large company. The consulting gig was on the tech one of the startups I was at 6 years prior... Large enterprises were starting to adopt. They sold my hours in 12 month contracts, all my clients renewed year over year until one just bought up all of my hours. They loved me and it was pretty much 20 hours a week of effort. I could have sat there for another 5 years easy without any discomfort, I assume.

I took a 4 year time out there and now I'm back at a startup. I think what I'm learning now is if I can survive a couple of years and pack my brain with a bunch of new shit I'll be able to get a very nice and chill consulting gig until I retire, if I want that. People want your beautiful and experienced brain and a lot of the shit you potentially have worked on or thought about is more relevant in the current and the future than in your past. A lot of the world is slow AF, you might be ahead.

Maybe more related to youtube than I thought, but I have trouble closing tabs and firefox with 15 or 20 tabs would eat all my CPU. Pages loaded much slower and the experience across the board was often pretty poor. I had to go back to Chrome and I don't miss FF at all. I tried.

This is what I do too, then I can sit even further away. Feels good on the ole' eyeballs.

I am taking a look at the Nvidia shield, which also uses the cast button. I have 3 Chromecasts that need to be replaced, but the cheapest Shield is $150!!

I guess each time Google kills something and I remove one more part of my life from their ecosystem they are doing me the real favor.

Kinda ridiculous but I'm on a stream that changes every snow melt and gold is so $$$ I've been considering panning and/or getting a metal detector just to mess around in the stream bed. I don't know if it's the value of gold or if this is another thing that happens as I age...

Be careful about those chargebacks. I bought two new pixel phones directly from Google and only one arrived. Google support was of course awful and Fedex did absolutely nothing outside of asking me what color the phone was. lol

I ended up reversing charges for the missing phone and Google immediately wrecked me - I was using Fi at the time so they killed my cell service and killed my ability to use Google Pay for anything - including the Play Store. Probably some other stuff I don't even remember. Between my personal account and my business accounts I realized at that moment that Google could completely wreck my life. Be careful about retaliation for a chargeback, if you live within one company's ecosystem it can be a brutal retaliation you're not ready for.

Doesn't Walmart do something similar when they open a store in a new area?

Annie's is owned by General Mills. I wouldn't be surprised it if went away around the time of the acquisition. You could try asking them for it. :-)